# Digital signage in a web browser


> Run digital signage on a PC, Mac, or smart display using only a web browser. No media player to buy, no software to install, and no hardware to mount.
You do not need a media player to run digital signage. If a device has a current web browser and can reach the internet, it can be a managed screen.

That covers a lot of hardware people already own: an office PC, a mini-PC behind a display, a Mac, a Linux machine, a Chromebook, an iPad, or a smart TV with a usable browser.

## How it works

You open a web address on the device. It shows a pairing code. You enter that code in your Screenly dashboard, and the device becomes a screen you manage remotely like any other, with the same playlists, scheduling, and monitoring.

Nothing is installed on the device, so nothing has to be updated on it either. The browser loads the current version every time it starts.

## What it is good for

Trying digital signage without buying anything. This is the shortest path from signing up to content on a real display, and it costs nothing to abandon if the answer is no.

Getting more out of hardware you already have. A PC already sitting behind a display does not need replacing to become a signage screen.

Windows specifically. There is no separate Windows app, because Windows uses this route in kiosk mode.

## What to weigh against it

A general-purpose computer is doing a single-purpose job, and it will behave like a general-purpose computer unless you tell it not to. It sleeps, it shows a screensaver, it puts a notification over your content, and it does not necessarily come back on its own after a power cut.

None of that is unfixable, and the settings are covered in [Run it unattended](/docs/anywhere/platforms/browser/guides/run-unattended/). But it is real work, and it is the reason purpose-built players exist.

If you want a device that needs none of that attention, [ScreenlyOS](/docs/screenlyos/) is the other end of the same product.

## Get started

[Open it and pair the screen](/docs/anywhere/platforms/browser/guides/open-it/) takes about a minute.